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KTAL-TV, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 15), is the NBC-affiliated television station serving Shreveport, Louisiana and the Ark-La-Tex. It is licensed to Texarkana, Texas; as such, it is the only major network affiliate in the market that is licensed outside Louisiana. The station is owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group; Nexstar also operates Fox affiliate KMSS-TV (channel 51) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KSHV-TV (channel 48) under a shared services agreement with owners Marshall Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting respectively. KTAL maintains studio facilities located on North Market Street north of Downtown Shreveport, with a secondary facility located at the Central Mall (off I-30) in downtown Texarkana. Its transmitter is located in Vivian, Louisiana. == History == The station first signed on the air on August 16, 1953 as KCMC-TV; it had a 390-foot tower and 28,200 watts of power.〔''Minden Press'' (Minden, Louisiana), August 16, 1953, p. 2〕 The station was founded by Clyde E. Palmer, owner of the ''Texarkana Gazette'' and several other newspapers and radio stations across Arkansas and Texas as well as KCMC radio (740 AM and 98.1 FM, now KTAL-FM). The station originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate, although it also carried select programs from NBC, ABC and DuMont. In May 1954, the station's transmitter power output was increased to 100,000 watts.〔''Minden Herald'', May 28, 1954, p. 6〕 The station lost the DuMont affiliation when that network shut down in 1956. It was left as a hybrid CBS/ABC/NBC affiliate. In 1960, CBS announced that it was dropping its affiliation with KCMC-TV since the signal of Shreveport-based KSLA-TV (channel 12) decently covered Texarkana. This would have forced KCMC-TV to fall back on its secondary affiliation with the then-weak ABC (which would not gain a major foothold in the Nielsen ratings nationally until the late 1960s) or become an independent station – neither of which was a viable option for such a small market. By this time, the Palmer properties had been taken over by Palmer's son-in-law, Walter E. Hussman, Sr. He persuaded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to collapse Texarkana and Shreveport into a single television market. Hussman then built a new broadcast tower in Vivian – the second-tallest transmission tower in the South at the time. In late 1960, the station changed its call letters to the current KTAL-TV. The call letters not only stood for channel 6's three-state service area – Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana – but also referred to the tower, which brought its signal into parts of four states; it simultaneously became the NBC affiliate for the enlarged Shreveport-Texarkana market. Shreveport's original NBC affiliate, KTBS-TV (channel 3), switched to ABC. For many years, the station was known as "K-Tal." In 1961, KTAL-TV moved most of its operations to a new studio on Market Street in Shreveport. Palmer Newspapers was renamed WEHCO Media, Inc. in 1973; the company is now run by Hussman's son, Walter E. Hussman, Jr.. In 1975, the FCC ruled that WEHCO could not own both KTAL-TV and the ''Texarkana Gazette'', but it won an appellate court decision in 1979 which stated that the FCC had misinterpreted its own rules. WEHCO thus retained KTAL until July 2000, when it sold the station to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group. On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America, owner of Fox affiliate KMSS-TV (channel 33) and also operates MyNetworkTV affiliate KSHV-TV (channel 45) under a time brokerage agreement, announced that it would sell its stations to Nexstar. Because Nexstar cannot legally purchase KMSS under FCC ownership rules as Shreveport has only eight full-power stations (the FCC requires a market to have at least eight unique owners once a duopoly is formed), and KTAL and KMSS are among the four highest-rated stations in the Shreveport market, KMSS was proposed to be sold to Nexstar partner company Mission Broadcasting, while KSHV was to be sold to a female-controlled company called Rocky Creek Communications. However, on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KMSS-TV to a new minority-owned company Marshall Broadcasting (marking the company's first television station acquisitions) for $58.5 million.〔(Nexstar Selling 3 Fox Affils For $58.5 Million ), ''TVNewsCheck'', June 6, 2014.〕 And on August 5, Rocky Creek withdrew its application to acquire KSHV.〔(Application Info ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 6 December 2014.〕 Nexstar will operate KMSS and KSHV under a shared services agreement, forming a virtual triopoly with KTAL, leaving Shreveport's six major commercial stations under the control of just three broadcasting companies (the Wray family owns KTBS, while KSLA-TV is owned by Raycom Media). The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 6 January 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KTAL-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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